Hacker News: lillecarl

New comment by lillecarl in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

lillecarl — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:22:15 +0000

Human beings

New comment by lillecarl in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

lillecarl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:27:18 +0000

We live on societies, switching from AC to DC because your low-power home appliances doesn't need AC makes no sense. Home power usage is dominated by heating and cooling not by your 45w laptop charger.

DC infrastucture makes sense in highly specialised environments.... Like new gigawatt AI farms

New comment by lillecarl in "IMG_0416 (2024)"

lillecarl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:54:50 +0000

The models detecting touch has become better and the touch grid has become both higher resolution and more reliable.

Being able to detect the middle-point of a fat finger wasn't a 1.0 feature

New comment by lillecarl in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

lillecarl — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:03:15 +0000

JSON is only written one way, CSV parses all have tweaks for delimiters and column names or not and such.

New comment by lillecarl in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

lillecarl — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:55:20 +0000

Alcohol has fucked up more lives than any other drug in my sphere. People who have had their life fucked by drugs has mostly been because of inhumane government intervention.

// Sweden

New comment by lillecarl in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

lillecarl — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:43:30 +0000

Yeah there are people who can't help themselves, but they are a fraction of a fraction of the population. When presented with an honest and decent alternative the vast majority will choose it.

New comment by lillecarl in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

lillecarl — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:40:33 +0000

Citation needed, SOTA labs surely has technical protection and legaleese against using them for training. It's been done in th past but what indicates this is still the case?

New comment by lillecarl in "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"

lillecarl — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:48:18 +0000

It's nice to buy responsibility when it's upheld, else you're just trading your money for the inability to fix things.

New comment by lillecarl in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

lillecarl — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:31:37 +0000

If this is the case you can install stop lights and traffic sensing at roundabout ingress points, you can also provide a "turn right" lane that bypasses the roundabout entirely. Intersections are dangerous.

New comment by lillecarl in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

lillecarl — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:25:17 +0000

You don't have this? In Sweden we have sensors to detect cars, pedestrians and bicycles to shift the lights as appropriate. During rush-hour those features are turned off/discarded in favor of "grid optimized" timings. In Netherlands they prioritize pedestrians and cyclists when it's raining.

We also have LED lights in our traffic lights which I've come to understand is a saftey hazard in USA because snow falls sometimes.

New comment by lillecarl in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

lillecarl — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:06:58 +0000

I use Scaleway as my registrar, I don't know if i can automate domain registration but I don't have to. They have APIs for managing records if you choose to host DNS there too.

New comment by lillecarl in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

lillecarl — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:28:32 +0000

It should be trivial for Waymo to implement a "drive carefully near schools" feature, and if really spicy "drive REALLY carefully near schools at these times" feature.

Safe driving starts with speed, lowering speed and informing the passengers seems like a no-brainer.

New comment by lillecarl in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

lillecarl — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:40:01 +0000

Yep, the Linux kernel comes to mind. There are niche alternatives but mostly everyone settles on Linux as their kernel because it's easier and allows moving faster forwards.

New comment by lillecarl in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

lillecarl — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:05:08 +0000

You're saying a proposed bill which hasn't passed is comparative to recent events in the US or am I reading too much between the lines?

New comment by lillecarl in "The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up"

lillecarl — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:14:35 +0000

Thicker cables or higher voltage(lower current) is the answer which is why it's used in power distribution networks where they can control the voltage by planning what to transform to.

New comment by lillecarl in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

lillecarl — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:14:08 +0000

A good amount != this. AI being able to do the easy parts of something doesn't replace the hard ones.

New comment by lillecarl in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

lillecarl — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:20:52 +0000

> Do you think if Russia invades Sweden tomorrow, private businesses can still do whatever they want like in peacetime

Pretty much

> or will they have to follow the new waartime rules set by the government and enforced by armed soldiers knocking on their door dragging them to court if they refuse to comply?

They'll be dragging them to court. We're a democracy, we don't just send soldiers after our own.

New comment by lillecarl in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

lillecarl — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:15:30 +0000

Luckily Sweden is not a dictatorship and doesn't have a supreme leder. Our government can't just hand-wave things. There's the legislative branch which must've had the foresight to make laws that allows the executive branch to order operators to comply.

The parent asked "Which technologically advanced democratic countries DON'T have this capability already developed and deployed?" and there are many, every country on earth isn't run by warmongering corrupt idiots.

New comment by lillecarl in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

lillecarl — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:41:40 +0000

I highly doubt the Swedish government has a way to turn off our internet. Our government doesn't own our internet infrastructure, it's owned by private companies. The government could impose legislation to force providers to comply with shutting down international peering but I have a hard time seeing it pass.

New comment by lillecarl in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

lillecarl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:43:14 +0000

If you only expose SSH then you're fine, but if you're deploying a bunch of WebApps you might not want them accessible on the internet.

The few things I self host I keep out in the open. etcd, Kubernetes, Postgres, pgAdmin, Grafana and Keycloak but I can see why someone would want to hide inside a private network.